Erik Kusch, PhD Student
Department of Biology
Section for Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity
Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE)
Aarhus University
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[Study Group] Bayesian Statistics with the Rethinking Material 1
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Binomial Regression Poisson Regression
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Prior predictive checks are important! Regularising priors help our models!
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Priors are meant to inform the model, not fit the data. Identifying priors from the data is usually a bad idea.
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Add a variable to account for length/size of time/distance unit.
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Models informed by scientific theory can
be (and often are) just as valid, if not
better, than our purely statistic models.
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